Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-12

THE VOTE WHICH SEALED ITS
FATE 353 TO 216.

Its Inability to Rule Erin-Emi grafton
Declared No oRemedy-BOme Secretary
Matthews Makes Strong Showing
from tn Q Governments Standpoint.
LONDON, Feb.1l.-Mr. ParnelPs amend
ment to the address In reply to the
Queens speech was rejected to-day by a
vote of $50 to 246.
The close of the debate on the Parnell
amendment was comparatively tame.
John Bright was absent. All the Con-
servatives and sixty-three Unionists, in
cludIng Messrs. Chamberlain and Col
lings, voted with the majority, and eighty
Parnellltes and the bulk of the Liberals,
including seventeen members of Mr..
Gladstone's government. with tie minor
ity. There was much cheering but little
enthusiasm, the result being foregOne
conclusion.
Mr.. Bright has written another letter in
criticism of Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy.
Mr.. Bright SAYS:
My vlews regarding the Liberal reunion
have remained unchanged since | spoke at
birmingham in July. WHAT has happened
since has confirmed the views ! then eX-
pressed. | attribute the break in the Liberal
party to the unwisdom of its leader and to
mostdeplorabe abandonment by the bulk of
the party of its position and policy at that
leaders Invitation or command. They
derstood, accepting them from n
popular M mister. | dare not surrender the
interests of the Irish people to conspiracy
bent on destroying the landowners of the
country as the first step toward severing Ire
land from England, conspiracy to which so
much of Ireland's present suffering and de-
moralization is due. | have been associated
very Intimately for twenty years with tins
9 IN Enn for Irnl nd
for thirty years. | have implored successive
Premiers to do the utmost legislation they
could for Ireland. MY sympathy for Ireland
is now as warm and real as ever, | believe a
majority of the instructed and thought
ful lrlshmen prefer the protection and ustice
of tho Imperial Parliament to a rule of con-
splracy under an Irish Parliament.
MOONLIGHT OUTRAGEs.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, In the House OF Com
mons this afternoon in answer to in
quiries affirmed the truth of the reports
that moonlighters had attacked the
houses of three farmers In Mill street,
County Cork, and cut off the hair OF every
woman met in the houses. The only reason
given for the outrages was that the
women had been seen speaking to the pO-
lice. Sir Michael said the government
would not release the Cross Maglen con-
Vfcts.
Thomas Sexton, ParnelIite member
from West Belfast, resuming the debate
on the Parnell amendment, taunted the
government on their inability to rule Ire
land without the assistance of an army
as large as the one needed in India. Mr..
ParnelPs amendment, DIR. Sexton con-
tended, raised Questions of vital and prac-
teal Importance.
WHERE 1T ALL HINGES.
The whole policy of the government in
Ireland, whether 1t was called reform of
the criminal procedure law or coercion,
hinged upon the relations between the
Irish landlords and their tenants. All
offers on the part of the tenants to
arbitrate the question OF rents had
been spurned, and the tenants now
stood with their backs against the wall
defying oppresslon-eYen the oppression
OF the law-because their position was
morally Impregnable. The tenants every
where in Ireland were willing to pay fair
rents, but The speaker believed that if all
the deposits banked under the plan of
campaign by small farmers and which
represented the utmost they were able to
pay were put into common fund, the
sum would not suffice to pay three
months rent on the basis demanded by the
landlords.
EMIGRATION NO REMEDY.
MIR. Sexton attacked Lord Hartington's
argument that general emigration would
remedy the distress prevailing in Ire
land. The real remedy, he said. was to
be found on securing to the people the
fruits of their toll. Further attempts 10
cause more of his countrymen to emf
CRATE would meet with passionate and
fierce resistance. Only an irish legisla-
ton would solve finally the question Of
dual ownership of land. Every day tes-
titled to the governments gross ignorance
OF Ireland ana its amazing incapacIty to
deal with Irish affairs. He appealed with
confidence to the newly enfranchised de-
mOcracy OF England to end the miseries
of Ireland in the only possible way
binding the two countries together in
heart and feeling and giving strength to
both. [Cheers.
CONTRACT LIABILITY.
Henry Matthews, Home Secretary, said
that no sophistry would ever satisfy the
nation that a person could at pleasure re-
duce the rent he mad contracted to pay.
thereby becoming Judge OF his own
cause. 1t was part and parcel of the
plan of campaign for the trustees to get
the money OF the tenants and hold it for
the purpose OF exercising coercion and
preventing the payment Of rents. The
plan involved the degradation of the
moral sense OF Ireland. Mr.. Parnell was
responsible for the Introduction into
public life OF the Irish idea that every
day obligations were unbinding because
onerous, and that the Irish rebels warning
against the Queen were to be pitied. The
speaker had only contempt for those
petty pilferers who, under the plan OF
campaign, were running away with the
landlords money and leaving the tenants
still liable.
PAUPERIsM NO TITLE TO PROPERTY.
1t was ne want OF sympathy for the
impoverished tenants that made the gov
ernment condemn the doctrine that
pauperism gives title TO property. The
government would be guilty OF grave
derelection OF duty If 1t failedsto enforce
the law against persons because their
position was one OF hardship. Enforce
ment of law and order was the sole foun-
dation OF civilized society, and the gov
ernment would not be deferred from
vindicating the law because the name
coercion was used.
Failures of the Week.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE business